Deus Ex
163 quotes
Biography
"My vision is augmented."
"Well, since that makes you my new boss, take a long look at Manderley's dead body. Consider that my resignation; I don't have time to write a letter."
"When due process fails us, we really do live in a world of terror."
"You mechs may have copper wiring to reroute your fear of pain, but I've got nerves of steel."
"I never had time to take the Oath of Service to the Coalition. How about this one? I swear not to rest until UNATCO is free of you and the other crooked bureaucrats who have perverted its mission."
"Call me nostalgic, but the nightlife seems to have lost its old charm."
"Some gang-banger, maybe you should think about going back to school."
"Bravery is not a function of firepower."
"Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems."
"Every war is the result of a difference of opinion. Maybe the biggest questions can only be answered by the greatest of conflicts."
"What good's an honest soldier if he can be ordered to behave like a terrorist?"
"You've got ten seconds to beat it before I add you to the list of NSF casualties."
"What a shame. [said after NPC Gilbert Renton dies. JC says this even if he caused Renton's death]"
"A forgotten virtue like honesty is worth at least twenty credits."
"I'm not big into books."
"I'm not going to stand here and listen to you badmouth the greatest democracy the world has ever known."
"Do what you think's right, JC. Only listen to your own conscience."
"This isn't a training exercise, JC. Your targets will be human beings. Keep that in mind."
"I'm like the Russian researcher who contracted his own virus. They want to study the way I die."
"One can be too self-sufficient, I'm coming to believe."
"A few bureaucrats in New York can't make good decisions for New Jersey, let alone Paris or a village in China."
"Somehow the notion of unalienable liberty got lost. It's really become a question of what liberties will the state assign to individuals or rather, what liberties we will have the strength to cling to."
"The wealthy have always been the ones to profit from one-world government."
"It's only a matter of time before someone clever and ambitious figures out that the tools of dictatorship have been ready-made by well meaning governments all over the world."
"A word of warning, Agent Denton. This was a simulated experience; real LAMs will not be so forgiving."